different between looming vs lingering

looming

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -u?m??

Verb

looming

  1. present participle of loom

Noun

looming (plural loomings)

  1. The condition of something that looms or towers.
    • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets No. 5, Stump-Orator
      But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him, []

Estonian

Noun

looming (genitive loomingu, partitive loomingut)

  1. creative work
Declension

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lingering

English

Etymology

From linger +? -ing.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?l???????/, /?l??????/
  • Hyphenation: ling?er?ing

Noun

lingering (plural lingerings)

  1. gerund of linger: an act of loitering or waiting.
    • 2000, David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
      But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.
  2. That which lingers; a remnant.

Translations

Verb

lingering

  1. present participle of linger

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